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Swooning over these marbled covers and page edges. Undated, circa turn of the century, complete two volume edition published by Hovendon Company, New York. John Hovendon bought International Book Co. during the 1890s and renamed it Hovendon Company. The page numbering in Volume I is in error. Pages are in sequential order through Chapter VIII, Page 366. The next page, which begins Chapter IX, starts at Page 15. Content does not appear to be affected. Volume II is 376 pp. Quarter calf over marbled boards. All edges marbled with marbled endpapers. Backstrips are detached on right-hand side and need to be glued. Piece of leather missing from top of backstrip on Volume I. Slight wear around edges. Marginalia on title page of both volumes. Light tanning. Pages are otherwise crisp and clean.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on February 28, 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel.[1] It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book, "Great Novelists and Their Novels" among the ten best novels of the world. The novel is highly organized despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned", alongside Oedipus Tyrannus and The Alchemist. It became a best seller with four editions published in its first year alone. It is generally regarded as Fielding's greatest book and as an influential English novel

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Continuing with our #miniaturebook collection, this set features some well-known and unique #antiquebooks. All available for sale on Etsy, IG, FB, ebay, or www.seagulltreasurechest.com

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This is just a preview of the many amazing books that will be posted in the upcoming weeks and months. Classics, first editions, Victorian bindings, book sets... I'm so excited to share everything with you!

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I researched the couple on the marriage certificate, but came up with zilch. Hope they had a happy life together

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Nothing like a vintage fundamentalist sermon on the dangers of booze

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I see these being owned by someone who owns a tobacco pipe and wears a crushed red velvet dinner jacket

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Early edition published in 1859 by Smith, Elder & Co, London. 271 pp. Quarter-bound in red leather with marbled design on covers. Hubbed spine with ornate gilt design and lettering. The covers are securely attached with no cracking or splitting of hinges. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpaper. All pages are tightly bound. Excellent condition.

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Second edition published in 1840 by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London. Written by Sir Samuel Romilly with a selection from his correspondence edited by his sons. Complete in three volumes. Quarter leather and marbled boards with ornate detail on the hubbed spine. A portion of leather is missing from Volume I's backstrip. Front joint of Volume I is cracked. Some fading to marble covers. Corners are bumped. All edges and endpapers marbled. Bookplate on front endpapers. Light tanning. Slight wave to pages. Foldout of Romilly's handwriting in Vol. I. Bleed through on last few pages of Vol. I and back free endpaper is stuck to back cover. Pages are otherwise crisp and clean.

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